Thiruvananthapuram: The woman, who was driving with IAS officer Sriram Venkataraman on the night of the fatal accident that claimed the life of a journalist, has been served a divorce notice by her NRI husband.
Wafa Firoze, whose car rammed K M Basheer in Thiruvananthapuram on August 3, has been accused by her husband of leading a life against the tenets of Islam and travelling abroad without his knowledge.
Venkataraman was driving Wafa Firoze’s car when it knocked down Basheer. Both Wafa's and Ventakaraman’s driving licences have been suspended in the wake of the accident. She had earlier paid fines for rash driving and for covering the car windows with dark film.
Wafa's husband, Firoze, an expatriate in Abu Dhabi, has also sent a copy of the notice to the president of the masjid committee at Navayikkulam, where his wife’s family hails from. He has listed out a slew of complaints against his wife from the day they got married.
He said that Wafa did not bother to inform him of the accident that hit headlines in Kerala. He said she refused to meet him even after he returned to Thiruvananthapuram from his work place in Abu Dhabi. “When you called me up on August 11, you did not tell me anything about the accident. When I checked it with you, you showered abuses on me,” the notice read.
He has given his wife 45 days to reply to the notice or go to his parents’ house on September 11 if she wanted to talk about it.